Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 7:52

52 Which of the Prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the just One, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

This is the rather said to stain all their glory from succession, and their Ancestors, Matth. 5.12. and 23.31, 37.

Our Saviour deservedly, and by way of eminence is so called; as not onely being himself Iust, and fulfilling all righteousness; but being the Lord our righteousness, Ier. 23.6. and is of God made unto us, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption, 1 Cor. 1.30. This word is used in a forensick sense, and is the same with innocent, and opposite to guilty; whereby St. Stephen vindicates our Saviour, notwithstanding the unjust sentence passed here upon him.

In hiring Iudas.

In that they excited Pilate to condemn him, and abetted the Soldiers and others, in executing of him.

Marginal references: Chap. 3.14.